Have you ever had one of those days?

Have you ever had one of those days where God reminds you of who is in charge? That happened to me this morning. Life with 3 little boys is hectic in itself without me adding to the mix. It was a struggle getting up this morning knowing how cold it was outside. I just wanted to stay snuggled in my bed all day so needless to say I hit the snooze a couple of time and got up about 20 minutes later than I normally do. Bad mistake. I get my shower and get ready for work, wake up Hayden and fix him breakfast (an egg and cheese biscuit, his favorite). He's sitting on the couch eating and watching cartoons and I notice he's barely touched his biscuit. I asked what was wrong and he all but has a meltdown "I don't like it when the cheese is melted, it tastes nasty." Are you kidding me? Although, I don't know why I was suprised by this comment, this is a child who doesn't like cool whip (weird I know, I wonder sometimes if he's actually my child). I said ok then you're getting cereal. Once he finished he got dressed, I changed Carson and put them in the car. Now, if any of you out there have been around my middle child long enough you know that his mood can change at the drop of a hat. I like to call him Sybil and Papa calls him Oscar for Oscar the Grouch. My plan is to get him out of the bed wrap him up in a blanket and take him to the car in his jammies since I'm already running late (and yes I'm aware that it's my fault I'm running late). So I get Oscar out of bed and whisper in his ear that he can wear his spiderman jammies to memaws and then it happens...the whaling begins "no, I want to wear clothes to memaws!" and blah blah blah the story goes on. We FINALLY get to my mother-in-laws house and I take Oscar inside, by this time he's fine and forgotten all about wanting to wear "clothes", I go back to the car to get Carson out and as I'm getting him out I set his diaper bag on the trunk of my car. All of a sudden I hear the sound of glass breaking and I thought to myself "what the heck was that?" I look back and the diaper bag has fallen off the trunk of my car and Carson's milk which was in a glass container (don't ask me why I put in a glass container) has busted all over the driveway. At this point my eye has began to twitch and I'm about to cry. I take a deep breath, clean up my mess and tell my MIL that I'll be right back. I go BACK home, pack another bag and take it back to my MIL's house. It is now 7:42. The school bell rings at 7:35 and Hayden has begun to panic a little because he knows that the bell has already rang. As I'm trying to hurry and get him there on time he says to me "oh know, I left my snack bag at home" Really? So then we have to make another pit stop and get him a snack. We made it to the school at 7:54. After he got out of the car I breathed a sigh of relief. So as I'm driving to work I realized that God IS in control of our lives and we need to let Him be in control. When life makes you frazzled and you want to pull your hair out go to Him and He will make it ok.

You win some you lose some...

Well the Cullman Cyclone Fireplug football team had a losing season to say the least. Bless their hearts they didn't win a single game except for their Jamboree game. No matter how hard they played they came up short every single time. But the ironic thing is that no matter how bad they got beat every single player came off that field with a smile on their face knowing they did the best they could do and that they had a blast doing it. As parents we want our children to succeed and know the feeling of succeeding and to be a good sportsman about it, but children have a funny way of teaching adults a life leasson in that it does not matter if you win or lose it's how you played the game and knowing that you did the best you could do. There wasn't a single game where Hayden came to me with a frown on his face saying "we lost mom", it was always "did you see me snap the ball?" or "did you see me tackle that guy?". He's winner in his own eyes and in ours for knowing he did the very best he could do. I'm so proud of you Hayden!